On Politics

It is late, for me anyway, because I go to work way too early, but I am listening to Hugh Hewitt on a station from Hawaii. I do love the internet. He happens to mention that there was a revolution going on in Iran, but CNN was running wall to wall Clinton stents. It occurred to me that I had not seen very much on Iran all day. There where only a few articles on Drudge early today, then nothing new.
Now, I know there is a big time difference thing, however, I cannot believe that we are ignoring the good people of Iran who are willing to risk prison and death to free their country from the evil regime that rules them.
For our part, the President of the United States of America, the great enemy of Iran, let his spokesman announce that the administration did not believe that Iran had really produced the enriched uranium as they have claimed today.
Thirty years after the Revolution that produced this dangerous regime, it is unconscionable that the United States would ignore what is going on in that country.
Maybe there will be more news tomorrow. Maybe our president will start to lead.
On Books.
George Friedman's The Next 100 Years is really wild by the time he gets to the year 2040. "Star Wars" meets geopolitics in the future. Japan is attacking the United States in another Pearl Harbor, but in space against the United State's very own Battle Stars. The purely hilarious part is how they destroy the Battle Stars.
Friedman makes the point that prior to WWII, the Japanese negotiated right up until the attack, and then attacked from aircraft carriers using torpedoes in a harbor thought to be too shallow for them to be effective. And they did it on a Sunday when sailors were on shore leave or sleeping, taking us by complete surprise at every level.
Similarly, Friedman purposes circumstances in 2040 that involve a sneak attack in a manner no one thought was possible at a time when the government was on vacation and the military was focused elsewhere. It is ingenious, except that now we know, so no one should be surprised. I think that is his point in writing the book--to give a heads up to what the future could look like.
Since his predictions are based on predictable geopolitical actions by historically predictable governments, it is probably a fairly credible estimation of future events.
The most compelling example to me is this attack by the Japanese on the United States. It is not just history repeating itself, it is a timeless scenario because the Japanese in his scenario hurl car size moon rocks through space to knock out our Battle Stars. Just take a look at film of street violence in the Middle East today, and see rocks being hurled at well armed and armored riot police. People without guns or bombs or missiles still throw rocks; it will be no different in 2040, according to Mr. Friedman. I think he is onto something here.